Staff Backend Engineer, JVM

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💃 Latin America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Addi

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201 - 500 employees

💳 Fintech

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

Fintech • eCommerce • B2C

Addi es una empresa de tecnología que busca impulsar y habilitar el comercio digital en Latinoamérica. En Addi, quieren que las personas compren lo que quieran, cuando quieran, de forma fácil, rápida y transparente, sin intereses, sin costos adicionales, sin papeleo y sin complicaciones.

📋 Description

• Drive Addi’s backend technical direction, platform architecture, and engineering standards across squads • Deliver at least one material business result in the role’s domain • Re-engineer high-volume credit decisioning, onboarding, checkout, payments, repayments, and collections flows with Product, Risk, and Growth • Own platform reliability, scalability, performance, security, cost, and operability • Design and drive adoption of service templates, shared libraries, messaging and event standards, and CI/CD and release practices • Set and support SLOs and error budgets by service tier • Lead root-cause analysis for major production incidents and prevent recurrence • Turn backend security and quality standards into CI gates • Roll out agentic coding conventions, skills, spec templates, and CI gates for backend squads • Shape technical direction through RFCs and ADRs and drive adoption • Mentor Senior engineers toward Staff and Tech Lead roles • Participate in incident leadership and the on-call culture • Work as an individual contributor with company-wide technical leadership and no people-management responsibility

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in backend and distributed systems at scale • 18+ years building production software • 8+ years owning the architecture of large-scale distributed backend systems • Expert in the JVM ecosystem: Java, Kotlin, or Scala, with Spring Boot • Strong command of SQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, event-driven design, AWS, and Kubernetes • Experience designing architectures covering service boundaries, data consistency, messaging, and zero-downtime rollouts • 4+ years at Staff, Principal, or Software Architect level • Experience driving technical decisions across multiple squads • Experience writing RFCs/ADRs and driving adoption • Created a shared standard adopted by 4+ teams • Experience with major re-architectures or modernizations while maintaining product delivery and availability • Experience using agentic CLIs such as Claude Code or Factory Droid as a default coding approach • Experience setting up AGENTS.md conventions, skills, spec templates, and CI gates for teams or organizations • Experience defining SLOs and delivering measurable improvements in availability, latency, throughput, or infrastructure cost • Experience defining security practices involving authN/authZ, PII/data protection, OWASP, and PCI • Experience with unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing strategies • Experience leading root-cause analysis for complex production incidents • Strong understanding of credit risk, payments, conversion, and cost • Experience aligning Engineering, Product, Risk, Security, and Data stakeholders • Experience owning high-volume payment, credit decisioning, ledger, or onboarding systems at a fintech, bank, or marketplace • Understanding of idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, compliance, and trust in regulated financial products • Nice to have: API gateways, GraphQL/BFF layers, third-party integrations, OAuth, token issuing and refresh • Experience mentoring engineers promoted to Senior or Staff • Experience shaping hiring, review processes, or engineering guilds • Experience as a calibrated interviewer • Conversational English level is requested in the application form

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Salary • Equity in the company • Benefits that go beyond the basics • AI Notetaker interview recording/transcription (internal evaluation use) • Ability to opt out of interview recording without impacting candidacy

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